Adamson gets our nod for District 26

The former Republican-turned-Democrat seems to understand balance between education and limitations in sate funding

The Sherwood Gazette, Sep 30, 2008, Updated Oct 30, 2009

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We wish the legislative race for House District 26 serving Sherwood, Wilsonville, Bull Mountain and portions of southern Washington County was more focused on pressing issues important to the state and local residents.

Issues such as how to best educate kids; improve Oregon’s economy and grow jobs; improve public safety, fix transportation troubles; and how to begin to solve the crisis of health care access and cost.

Unfortunately this race involving Democrat Jessica Adamson, Republican Matt Wingard and Libertarian Marc Delphine has stumbled into a growing conversation and ugly political debate over Wingard’s 2001 conviction of child abuse and ultimately accepting a charge of misdemeanor fourth degree assault. At the heart of this is Wingard’s admission that he momentarily lost his temper and struck his then 7-year-old son on the head with a screw driver handle.

After judging the candidates and their opinions on the issues — and the nagging knowledge of Wingard’s admission that he struck his son with a tool handle — we advise voters to elect Adamson in the Nov. 4 general election.

Adamson, a mother of three and a resident of Sherwood, well represents the growing number of young families with kids. Yet she does so without giving up on the important value that District 26 residents place on jobs, effectiveness in government, worker rights and public safety.

A volunteer in Sherwood schools and a member of the school district budget committee, Adamson understands the balance between educating kids in the best possible way and doing so within the limitations of state funding and local taxpayers’ support.

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